A History of Biblical Israel

Name: A History of Biblical Israel
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The Fate of the Tribes and Kingdoms from Merenptah to Bar Kochba

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Paperback / softback

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Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean

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There was probably only one past, but there are many different histories. As mental representations of narrow segments of the past, 'histories' reflect different cultural contexts and different historians, although 'history' is a scientific enterprise whenever it processes representative data using rational and controllable methods to work out hypotheses that can be falsified by empirical evidence. A History of Biblical Israel combines experience gained through decades of teaching biblical exegesis and courses on the history of ancient Israel, and of on-going involvement in biblical archaeology. 'Biblical Israel' is understood as a narrative produced primarily in the province of Yehud to forge the collective memory of the elite that operated the temple of Jerusalem under the auspices of the Achaemenid imperial apparatus. The notion of 'Biblical Israel' provides the necessary hindsight to narrate the fate of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah as the pre-history of 'Biblical Israel', since the archives of these kingdoms were only mined in the Persian era to produce the grand biblical narrative.The volume covers the history of 'Biblical Israel' through its fragmentation in the Hellenistic and Roman periods until 136 CE, when four Roman legions crushed the revolt of Simeon Bar-Kosiba.

Author Biography:

Ernst Axel Knauf is Associate Professor of the Old Testament and Biblical Studies at the University of Berne. Philippe Guillaume is Privatdozent at the Biblical Institute of the Theological Faculty of the University of Berne.

Release date Australia

August 25th, 2016

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Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Illustrations

66 figures

Pages

280

Series

Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean

Dimensions

156x234x18

ISBN-13

9781781791424

Product ID

22943893

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